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...plucked a mildly anti-U.S. chord that warmed De Gaulle. "It is a fact," said Frei, "that the U.S. is a great world power and exerts hegemony in several parts of the world. We Latin Americans want a system without hegemony." Did this mean a cooling of U.S.-Chilean relations? Not at all, explained Frei. "The discrepancy that exists in important matters-such as the U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic [which Frei opposed]-does not signify anything of the kind. Democracy functions with discrepancies...
Elisa Grey de Abalos, 94, widow of a prominent Chilean politician, is mad. The Santiago mansion over which she reigns is rotting. Her housekeepers get drunk. Her nursemaid turns thief, gets pregnant. And her only living relative, Grandson Don Andres, 54, is a cultured celibate who has made a career of reading French history and collecting walking sticks. To top it off, Elisa has a vocabulary astonishingly rich in four-letter words and an imagination so diabolical that most of her maids flee in horror. For all her madness, though, the old girl has a no-nonsense way of getting...
...truest sense. In his presidential campaign last summer against Communist-backed Salvador Allende, Frei promised voters a long list of desperately needed economic and social reforms. Partly because of his personal appeal and partly because of widespread distaste for the Marxist Allende, Frei rolled up the largest plurality in Chilean history. Yet in office he faced a lame-duck Congress, in which his party held a scant 33 of the 192 seats, so few that he was unable to win passage of a single major bill. In the congressional campaign, Frei's party urged the voters to make...
...head-to-head campaign against Chile's powerful, Communist-dominated leftists, Frei (pronounced Fray) was swept into office with 54% of the vote, the greatest plurality in Chilean history. He won partly because of his own magnetism, partly because of his ambitious ideas to cure Chile's many economic and social ills. Yet in office he has been stymied by a lame-duck Congress in which his Christian Democrats control only 24 of 147 Assembly seats and nine of 45 seats in the Senate. His opponents in six other parties have blocked him to the point where...
...reform to raise rates on middle and high incomes, school reform to upgrade Chile's lagging primary and secondary schools. He wants to deflate the government's ballooning bureaucracy and amend the constitution to protect workers' rights to join unions. His most controversial proposal is the "Chileanization" of the country's copper industry; the government would acquire 51% interest in the U.S.'s Braden Copper Co. and a 25% interest in two new U.S. ventures in return for an $80 million payment and a promise of stable taxes. Frei claims that the scheme would double...